Dr. Laura Yahdjian
Senior LecturerUniversity of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Agronomy from University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
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University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Biography
Dr. Laura Yahdjian is currently working as Adjunct Research Scientist at tenure track position Institute for Agricultural Plant Physiology and Ecology Argentine Research Council (IFEVA/CONICET), Senior Demonstrator, at Ecology Department Faculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires. She obtained her PhD in Agronomy Graduate School of Faculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires Argentine in 2004. She has published15 articles in journals. She also monitored several graduate and undergraduate students thesis. She has received grants for her research work. She also delivered more than 59 presentations on meetings.
Area of Interest:
Environmental Sciences
100%
Applied Ecology
62%
Arid Environments
90%
Ecosystems
75%
Ecology
55%
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Selected Publications
- Yahdjian, L., O.E. Sala and K.M. Havstad, 2015. Rangeland ecosystem services: Shifting focus from supply to reconciling supply and demand. Front. Ecol. Environ., 13: 44-51.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Yahdjian, L., L. Gherardi and O.E. Sala, 2014. Grasses have larger response than shrubs to increased nitrogen availability: A fertilization experiment in the Patagonian steppe. J. Arid Environ., 102: 17-20.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Spirito, F., L. Yahdjian, P.M. Tognetti and E.J. Chaneton, 2014. Soil ecosystem function under native and exotic plant assemblages as alternative states of successional grasslands. Acta Oecologica, 54: 4-12.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Gherardi, L.A., O.E. Sala and L. Yahdjian, 2013. Preference for different inorganic nitrogen forms among plant functional types and species of the Patagonian steppe. Oecologia, 173: 1075-1081.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Araujo, P.I., L. Yahdjian and A.T. Austin, 2012. Do soil organisms affect aboveground litter decomposition in the semiarid Patagonian steppe, Argentina? Oecologia, 168: 221-230.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Yahdjian, L., L. Gherardi and O.E. Sala, 2011. Nitrogen limitation in arid-subhumid ecosystems: A meta-analysis of fertilization studies. J. Arid Environ., 75: 675-680.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Yahdjian, L. and O.E. Sala, 2010. Size of precipitation pulses controls nitrogen transformation and losses in an arid Patagonian ecosystem. Ecosystems, 13: 575-585.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Yahdjian, L. and O.E. Sala, 2008. Do litter decomposition and nitrogen mineralization show the same trend in the response to dry and wet years in the Patagonian Steppe?. J. Arid Environ., 72: 687-695.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Yahdjian, L. and O.E. Sala, 2008. Climate change impacts on South American rangelands. Rangelands, 30: 34-39.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Yahdjian, L., O.E. Sala and A.T. Austin, 2006. Differential controls of water input on litter decomposition and nitrogen dynamics in the Patagonian steppe. Ecosystems, 9: 128-141.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Yahdjian, L. and O.E. Sala, 2006. Vegetation structure constrains primary production response to water availability in the Patagonian steppe. Ecology, 87: 952-962.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Austin, A.T., L. Yahdjian, J.M. Stark, J. Belnap and A. Porporato et al., 2004. Water pulses and biogeochemical cycles in arid and semiarid ecosystems. Oecologia, 141: 221-235.
CrossRef | Direct Link | - Yahdjian, L. and O.E. Sala, 2002. A rainout shelter design for intercepting different amounts of rainfall. Oecologia, 133: 95-101.
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